 ... the public esteem. If we read of some illustrious line so ancient that it has no beginning, so worthy that it ought to have no end, we sympathize in its various fortunes; nor can we blame the generous enthusiasm, or even the harmless vanity, of those...  Godefridus - Page 221by Kenelm Henry Digby - 1844Full view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...sentiment and pro.* priety of conduct, which is guarded from dishonour by their own and the public esteem. If we read of some illustrious line so ancient that...beginning, so worthy that it ought to have no end, we sympathize in its various fortunes; nor can we blame the generous enthusiasm, or even the harmless... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...sentiment and propriety of conduct, which is guarded from dishonour by their own and the public esteem. If we read of some illustrious line so ancient that...beginning, so worthy that it ought to have no end, we sympathize in its various fortunes; nor can we blame the generous enthusiasm, or even the harmless... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 498 pages
...guarded from dishonour by their own und the public esteem. If we r.ead of some illustrious line'so ancient that it has no beginning, so worthy that it...enthusiasm, or even the harmless vanity, of those \vlto are allied to the honours of its name. For my own part, could I draw my pedigree from a general,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 594 pages
...dishonour by their own and the public esteem- If we read of some illustrious line so ancient that ii has no beginning, so worthy that it ought to have no end, we sympathize in its various fortunes ; nor can we blame the generous enthusiasm, or even the harmless... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1837 - 882 pages
...sentiment and propriety of conduct, which is guarded from dishonour by their own and the public esteem. • If we read of some illustrious line so ancient that it has no icginning, so worthy that it ought to have no end, we sympathise in its various fortunes ; nor can... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 486 pages
...sentiment and propriety of conduct, which is guarded from dishonour by their own and the public esteem. If we read of some illustrious line so ancient that...beginning, so worthy that it ought to have no end, we sympathize in its various fortunes ; nor can we blame the generous enthusiasm, or even the harmless... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 396 pages
...sentiment and propriety of conduct, which is guarded from dishonour by their own and the public esteem. If we read of some illustrious line so ancient that...beginning, so worthy that it ought to have no end, we sympathize in its various fortunes , nor can we blame the generous enthusiasm, or even the harmless... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 pages
...sentiment and propriety of conduct, which is guarded from dishonour by their own and the public esteem. If we read of some illustrious line so ancient that...beginning, so worthy that it ought to have no end, we sympathize in its various fortunes , nor can we blame the generous enthusiasm, or even the harmless... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pages
...sentiment and propriety of conduct, which is guarded from dishonour by their own and the public esteem. If we read of some illustrious line, so ancient that...beginning, so worthy that it ought to have no end, we sympathize in its various fortunes ; nor can we blame the generous enthusiasm, or even the harmless... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 1868 - 426 pages
...sentiment and propriety of conduct, which is guarded from dishonor by their own and the public esteem. If we read of some illustrious line so ancient that...beginning, so worthy that it ought to have no end, we sympathize in its various fortunes ; nor can we blame the generous enthusiasm, or even the harmless... | |
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